France shuts down clandestine Chinese 'police stations' operating on its territory
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/06/18/france-shuts-down-clandestine-chinese-police-stations-operating-on-its-territory_6754608_7.html
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hansolo@lemmy.today · 59 pts · 73d
It's so crazy how many countries they've tried this in.
yogurt@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 72d
Also crazy how many put out a heavily covered press release like this and then nobody checks back later when nothing happened or they dropped the charges or the government is getting sued.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 72d
The CIA has stations in all those countries.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 72d
They’re called “embassies”
frongt@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 72d
And every country uses their embassy as a spy station. It's not exclusive to the US and the CIA.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 72d
China wasn't running an embassy here.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 72d
Mutually assured espionage
hansolo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 72d
I bet the sky is blue in all those counties, too.
What's your point?
Also, name 7 counties where foreign counties say "hey, look, we only speak our own language in your county. Therefore, to ensure we have none of our people enjoying life to much, we need to set up an entire parallel law enforcement system for our people to certainly not micromanage them, but also not let you do it in your own county."
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 72d
Because it's all made up bullshit. Most of these "secret chinese police stations" end up just being grocery stores that were given the ability to renew Chinese people's passports and other administrative shit.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 71d
LOL.
Let me get this right.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is so janky as fuck as to let any Chinese shop owner on Earth:
And
But it's "just, like, an old couple that also sells Fanta and whatnot."
Is that actually what you're saying? Because there's not a single African nation that would ever even allow that, and they have some loosey-goosey rules.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 73d
Good!
Now do the Israeli ones too
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 72d
im afriad they infiltrated the governments, businesses, much harder to rout out.
iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 72d
iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 72d
subOrange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 73d
“It is their culture and we have to respect them” /s